Negotiations on a new international treaty to combat global warming began Monday in Bangkok. The week-long negotiations, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , are intended to establish an agenda for the negotiation of a new agreement to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol . Pursuant to the Bali Roadmap negotiated [...]

The Greek Ministry of Justice has agreed to establish a working group to analyze the potential impact of recognizing same-sex civil marriages in Greece, according to Monday media reports. The move comes after the Greek National Commission for Human Rights proposed legislation to allow same-sex marriage in the country. RIA Novosti has more. Currently, Belgium, [...]

Three Norwegian men indicted in September for shooting at an Oslo synagogue and planning attacks against US and Israeli embassies went on trial in Oslo Monday under strengthened anti-terrorism laws. This is the first time that suspects will be tried under the country's new terror laws, which were passed in response to the Sept. 11, [...]

New Jersey US District Judge Robert Kugler Monday sentenced Albanian Kosovar refugee Agron Abdullahu , one of the six men arrested in May for plotting an attack on New Jersey's Fort Dix , to 20 months in prison. In October 2007, Abdullahu pleaded guilty to charges of "conspiring to provide firearms and ammunition" to the [...]

A gag order precluding former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks from speaking to the media expired on Sunday, but Hicks is reportedly "not interested at the moment" in speaking publicly about his detention. Hicks had agreed not to speak publicly before March 30, 2008 about his detention as a condition of his release from an [...]

The US Department of Defense Monday charged Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani with several terrorism-related counts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 stemming from his alleged involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania . The charges include providing material support to terrorism, murder in violation of the Law of [...]

Chadian President Idriss Deby Monday officially pardoned six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children. The six were handed over to French custody in December to serve their sentences. Chad's Higher Judicial Council on Friday recommended that Deby pardon the French workers. Earlier this month Deby had [...]

Terry Gorman : "At a press conference on March 27,2008, Rhode Island Governor Carcieri issued an Executive Order to control rapidly escalating cost of illegal immigration in Rhode Island. The Order requires the Executive Branch to register and use E-verify for all new hires, check the validity of Social Security numbers that are submitted and [...]

EULEX Kosovo head Yves de Kermabon said Monday that a 1,800-strong European Union police and justice mission in Kosovo will go forward even in Serbian-controlled areas, despite reservations from some EU member states. Spain's Foreign Affairs Ministry said Monday that the country will not send personnel to the mission until the handover from the current [...]

The Constitutional Court of Turkey voted 11-0 Monday to hear a bid to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) , days after a warning by the EU Enlargement Commissioner that an AKP ban could have serious ramifications for Turkey's bid to join the European Union . Earlier this month, Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya [...]